Best In Class?
Morning, all. Echoing MAHE’s thoughts from Saturday when he bemoaned the wasted weeks conducting a manager search which should have been done and dusted a long time ago, I must confess to…
Morning, all. Echoing MAHE’s thoughts from Saturday when he bemoaned the wasted weeks conducting a manager search which should have been done and dusted a long time ago, I must confess to…
Morning, all. Welcome to the month of June. The first of two summer months largely without domestic club football. The two months which seem to stretch forever in terms of…
Morning, all. The release of information yesterday from the SFA about the events on Saturday barely made a ripple-except on Timternet, of course-and is unlikely to change the prevailing narrative…
Morning, all. The manufactured scandal that is Whistlegate, or The Question Of The Missing Minute or whatever they are calling it now, continues unabated. No surprise really, as those with…
Morning, all. It’s been a long hard slog with many obstacles along the way, but we came through in the run-in and pipped the favourites at the death, leaving our…
Morning, all. Wednesday has gone, and Saturday is still to come. Woe betide however should I even touch on a match preview for tomorrow-MAHE would use all of his fine…
Morning, all. There was no way I was writing the match report last night. You couldn’t have got me down from Cloud Nine to do it anyway! How can you…
Morning, all. Not often I’m speechless, but Wow!!!!! was as much as I could bellow when Maeda scored his second yesterday. Words can’t do justice to a piece of magic…
And now we move on to the final stage of the competition, which will see us through the Classics at Epsom and finish on the final day of Royal Ascot….
Morning, all. BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE almost scuppered my plans for today’s article with his well-aimed diatribe yesterday morning about the blatant cheating (no, it WASN’T incompetence) by the officials at…
Morning, all. You might have been forgiven for hoping that the Edinburgh weekend would have cleared things up for us a little. In a way, it did. We know that…
Morning, all. If, as we are told, you can’t put lipstick on a pig, then I’m certainly not going to attempt to dress up yesterday as a game that we…
Morning, all. While some of you were reading the site last night, I was busy watching the Forest v Villa Europa League semi final. Apologies for not flicking onto the…
Morning, all. I’ve seen some excellent football matches this season, sadly not very many involving our team. The Italian league, for all its problems, still has some excellent sides plying…
Morning, all. We Celtic fans are no stranger to some of the dark arts in football, with memories of Racing Club and Atletico Boo-hiss still remarkably strong. Whether it be…
Morning, all. Today’s article is on a wider topic than our club, mainly about sustainability or otherwise. We’ve all read recently about the huge sum of £7m paid in Corporation…
Morning, all. I’ve been thinking about the last five league games of the season, as we probably all have, and also about Sunday, and how the ninety minutes has been…
Morning, all. It was two weeks ago that I wrote an article titled The Last Chance Saloon, not being the type to pass up an easy cliché for a headline….
Morning, all. We are all familiar with the phrase “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Perhaps a rather unflattering comparison of a useful branch of mathematics and economics, but we have…
Morning, all. It was my pleasure yesterday to receive a phone call from my sister, and naturally it didn’t take us long to get down to the really important matters….
Morning, all. The good news from Saturday is that we kept a clean sheet. The bad news is that we rarely looked like adding to our single goal, this on a weekend…
Morning, all. Tomorrow gives us the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. It’s the end of the three scheduled rounds of fixtures in the SPL, taking us…
Morning, all. Back when we were but callow youths, various elders and betters would try to pass on the benefits of their accumulated wisdom. You know the kind of thing,…
Morning, all. Ian Crocker did his level best on Sunday to jinx our chances by dropping the most irrelevant statistics into almost every rushed sentence, but there was no getting…
Morning, all. One of the unavoidable facts of life is that we will sometimes see clouds on the horizon. Ugly ones at times. Big black basterts bearing down on us….
Howdy, folks. We have some very generous people on here, constantly thinking of ways to offer us fun and the chance to empty those bookies satchels at the same time….
Morning, all. Yesterday wasn’t our worst performance of the season. Probably. This season is just so bad that it’s hard to think of a good performance at all. Yesterday, if…
Morning, all. The news when it finally arrived was hardly news at all. That Kasper Schmeichel had been playing with an injury that required surgery may have included more information…
Morning, all. Some really important news filtered through late last night from AFCON, as “The Dark Continent” lit the way for football federations and associations throughout the rest of the…
Morning, all. Saturday went very well for us in the end, but Motherwell proved that they are no pushovers and that their standing in the league table, and as the…
Morning, all. Brian Wilson and the board as a whole have thus far declined to issue a statement of any gravitas whatsoever on the events on Sunday, despite such being…
Morning, all. News filtered through yesterday that the huns, fresh from the disgrace of Sunday, will be let loose again at the next meeting of the two big Glasgow clubs,…
Morning, all. One shot on goal, none on target. Winning surely can’t get more ugly than this. Except it was beautiful in its own way; we won on penalties against…
Howdy, folks. The site, with the ever-welcome assistance of CHALMERSBHOY, will again operate two ventures to empty those bookie satchels over the forthcoming season. The site will put £5 per…
Morning, all. The good news about Wednesday came with the winner from Nygren, cos there’s no doubt that those were an important, possibly even vital, three points. The better news…
Morning, all. Another midweek, another difficult match. This time a trip to Aberdeen, another side who haven’t exactly set the heather alight this season and are currently without a permanent…
Welcome to The Cheltenham Festival, the World Championship of jumps racing. As ever the site is running a wee competition for your pleasure, and once again the prize money is…
Morning, all. Yesterday was a great result for Hearts. Over the course of the weekend, they saw their lead at the top of the table increase by two points, while…
Morning, all. A wee bit of German language wordplay to start the day for you all, folks. Don’t say I don’t spoil you. Last night went surprisingly well, from the…
Morning, all. Tonight may see us play out the biggest waste of ninety minutes in our entire history. Even the embarrassing hammerings by Artmedia Bratislava and Neufchâtel Xamax had the…
Morning, all. The season isn’t yet at the damage limitation stage, but it’s getting very close to it. Not only are we not biting into the Hearts lead, but we…
Morning, all. I have been known to drop the occasional f-bomb in conversation and on here, but rarely, if ever, in a headline. But then, I’ve never before known Martin…
Morning, all. Tonight sees us at home to in-form Stuttgart, who have motored up the Bundesliga to look strong favourites for an automatic CL place after a rough autumn. And…
Morning, all. This is my last correspondence from this trip to Scotland; I’ll be on the train to Swindon via London by the time most of you read this. Depending…
Morning, all. Yesterday, UEFA published the amounts of cold hard cash awarded to each club which played in their European tournaments last season. Hearts, currently leading the SPL but not…
Morning, all. If the important thing about a cup tie like Saturday was to win, even in extra time, then the important thing about a league game like last night…
Morning, all. I’ll start today’s article with a lazy lift from The Guardian. “The actor, comedian and broadcaster Charlie Baker recently opined in an impassioned soliloquy on the wireless: “VAR is…
The world famous Glasgow Celtic just about got the job done to stay in the Scottish Cup and keep our dreams of a domestic double alive. The teamsheet brought changes,…
Morning, all. During MON’s first spell with the club, he famously told a press conference that for Celtic to win the league we didn’t only have to be in front…